Upcoming Seminars
Nov. 17th, 11:30 AM
Seminar presented by Rahul MazumderModern machine learning models excel in prediction accuracy and model utility but are often difficult to interpret. Their large sizes also lead to high storage, inference, and evaluation costs. First, using decision tree ensembles (e.g., random forests…
MOR 230
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Statistics Graders and Tutors
Applications are invited for Graders and Tutors in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.
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Applications are invited for a Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.
This appointment is for a part-time temporary position, with either a quarterly (September 16 - December 15 for Autumn quarter, December 16 - March 15 for Winter quarter, or March 16 - June 15 for Spring quarter) or a 9-month (September 16 - June 15) service period, depending on departmental needs.
Research Papers
Aparajithan Venkateswaran, Emilija Perkovic
Published 7/9/2024
We study the problem of restricting Markov equivalence classes of maximal ancestral graphs (MAGs) containing certain edge marks, which we refer to as expert knowledge. MAGs forming a Markov equivalence class can be uniquely represented by an essential ancestral graph. We seek to learn the restriction of the essential ancestral graph containing the…
Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Jean-Bastien Grill, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Mathieu Blondel, Fabian Pedregosa
Published 7/8/2024
Curvature information -- particularly, the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian, known as the sharpness -- often forms the basis for learning rate tuners. However, recent work has shown that the curvature information undergoes complex dynamics during training, going from a phase of…
Recent News
We are very pleased to announce that Statistics Ph.D. student, Kayla Irish, has been awarded an FDA-OCE-ASA Oncology Educational Fellowship. The program provides statistics and biostatistics graduate…
The Department of Statistics at the University of Washington is firmly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. To this end, during the academic year 2025-2026, we are running the pre-…
We are happy to announce that undergrad Statistics students Sangey Rinchen and Steven Xiao have been awarded the first $1,500 Brent and Jill Smith Scholarships. These awardees were chosen from a…